Coming from an event planning background, food platters have a special plate in my heart. I have only one rule for food platters and that is that they look plentiful. Oh, and they have to look pretty. So I guess I have two rules. When it...
Meat. Veg. Starch. When I think of "Back to the Table", our Recipe Redux theme for this month, my memories take me back to our family dinner table where the six of us sat dutifully and ate a meat, a vegetable and a starch. We each...
Sigh. I had such great intentions for this post. I figured that there would be plenty of tomato posts with this assignment from Recipe Redux this month: Fresh from the Garden: The season of bountiful produce has arrived. Whether your produce comes from the farmers' market, a CSA share,...
A strawberry from California and a strawberry from Texas walk into a bar...
I've had this quiche on my mind for weeks (ok. not true. I was rooting around in the freezer the other night for a quick dinner idea and the pie crust floated to the top of the freezer drawer). Utilizing a boat load of teardrop...
Now that the temperatures have skyrocketed and school is almost out, it’s time to switch to my summer snacking plan. Disclaimer: I'm a proud Meta spokesperson and was compensated for this post. All thoughts and opinions are my own. What’s a summer snacking plan? In my house—and in...
It's the season of strawberries and I, for one, am taking full advantage. After a recent trip to R & C Dairy and Farmstead, B and I came home with 6 pounds of freshly picked berries. When one picks 6 pounds of strawberries, one quickly needs...
Garden Basil Pesto There's nothing quite like fresh garden basil pesto. When my five year old and I were invited to the Pesto Manifesto, a kids cooking class associated with the Saint James Healthy Food Initiative & Children’s Edible Garden, we jumped at the chance. Many...
Katie's trusty cast iron skillet Hi Friends. Meet Katie Morford. Katie is a San Francisco-based freelance food and nutrition writer. Oh, AND, she's a registered dietitian, cookbook author, cooking teacher, and mom. She's the author of Best Lunch Box Ever (Chronicle Books, 2013) and is currently focused...
Karen Page, author of THE VEGETARIAN FLAVOR BIBLE (Little, Brown: 2014) and I share a bond. Sure, we both love food, cooking, nutrition, flavor, etc. Yes, we both want people to eat more vegetables, considering the majority of American's don't get enough in their daily diets....